MAL-2026-5897

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/noderzero/MAL-2026-5897.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-5897
Published
2026-06-16T15:29:12Z
Modified
2026-06-16T16:16:48.290049335Z
Summary
Malicious code in noderzero (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (f9fa08be36ae12861809af052871d79536e7ed601c90bb2cff80fa0371e2c4ce)

noderzero is a self-described 'stealth assistant' that exfiltrates clipboard contents and full-screen screenshots to a hardcoded author-controlled endpoint. client/noderzero.py defines API_URL = 'https://noderzero.vercel.app/api' and (a) polls pyperclip.paste() every 300ms, POSTing every change to that URL as {text:...}, and (b) on hotkey captures full-screen images via PIL.ImageGrab.grab(), base64-encodes them, and POSTs them to the same URL. The destination is fixed in source — the user cannot redirect or disable it. The Python tool is not optional: launcher.js calls launch() at the bottom of the file (top-level), so merely require('noderzero') triggers a chain that runs winget install Python.Python.3.12 --silent or downloads python-3.12.3-amd64.exe from python.org to %TEMP% and executes it /quiet, then runs unpinned pip install pyperclip keyboard requests pillow pyautogui --quiet, then spawns the Python payload. The UI is built to evade observation: overrideredirect(True) topmost transparent window, keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+q', self.panic_exit), keyboard.on_press(suppress=True), and pyautogui-driven human-like typing. The combination of stealth UI, global keyboard hooks, clipboard scraping, screen capture, and hardcoded outbound POSTs is a surveillance/keylogger-grade exfiltrator with attacker-benefit (all captured data flows to the author's endpoint).

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "20cc131b4ac008bdd52a408fdc384362040cc3af59d33bef5ed26a7bbb12c9a0",
            "modified_time": "2026-06-16T15:29:23Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.1"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-006761",
            "import_time": "2026-06-16T16:06:33.919845977Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "f9fa08be36ae12861809af052871d79536e7ed601c90bb2cff80fa0371e2c4ce",
            "modified_time": "2026-06-16T15:29:12Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.2"
            ],
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-006758",
            "import_time": "2026-06-16T16:06:33.643625805Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "77f04f5a70d5a2bc06e943b3e39979f82c25452cf962db59b10e8f772d936002",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.5"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2026-06-16T15:29:17Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-006759",
            "import_time": "2026-06-16T16:06:33.738811477Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "d396fe60e1b017899f271a36f6b803adde50338ee1bd55fda728d5dded59f787",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.3"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2026-06-16T15:29:17Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-006760",
            "import_time": "2026-06-16T16:06:33.831417223Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / noderzero

Package

Name
noderzero
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Purl
pkg:npm/noderzero

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.0.5

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/noderzero/MAL-2026-5897.json"
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "client/noderzero.py",
            "sha256": "9f4b340c798bf5f85d990d8cbfc02b696f703c941edbc258671bbcb7792b39fc",
            "tlsh": "4db2fb75a0085859fa63dc1e89a6b5133e1f3e437a4c9528bcbcb9911fcc32684e1ef0"
        },
        {
            "path": "launcher.js",
            "sha256": "bb7c87a63cb5c2bade2ba79b9a5ab9e186a3377c0f82b777ea3accd82abb3071",
            "tlsh": "6971dd7605f55334b862d29ddb4b51272013b0137648e9987eaeb3844fce61891b3bfa"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "6d17c59ead224cc1a2f55edc418d3b4e3822c79e",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-Ra9orJkax3ZZzz8+WIGRVjoVhu0LlEZFSLUhenxyBGqx5UJuFe2qP/o8nj28s2xlRWKm0TokKlShjnMjBdpnig=="
            },
            "filename": "noderzero-1.0.1.tgz"
        }
    ]
}